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Meditation on the Pointlessness of Poetry
2019
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— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 64 no. 1 2019; (p. 44-52) 'What is poetry? I no longer ask such questions. Instead, every time I begin a new term with new classes on writing in English, sometimes creative writing, I tell myself and them: Forget what poetry is. Instead, write down your first poem on a blank piece of paper, in English, a language you have spent years learning. (Introduction)
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Meditation on the Pointlessness of Poetry
2019
single work
essay
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 64 no. 1 2019; (p. 44-52) 'What is poetry? I no longer ask such questions. Instead, every time I begin a new term with new classes on writing in English, sometimes creative writing, I tell myself and them: Forget what poetry is. Instead, write down your first poem on a blank piece of paper, in English, a language you have spent years learning. (Introduction)
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